Cloth which covers a casket or coffin during the funeral, often of rich materials.
1A white border to a black sea-his funeral pall and its edging.
2The bier of Brutus is Rome's funeral pall; He Minos seeks.
3The following gentlemen held the cords of the funeral pall:-
4A funeral pall was spread over Paris, once so gay.
5Woe o'er the land hung like a funeral pall:
6And in the meantime, what a funeral pall is lifted from the heart of the world!
7A funeral pall settled over the group.
8A second funeral pall was held by six coiffeurs of the corporation to which Jasmin had belonged.
9A monte-table cover as a funeral pall.
10What did it matter to him that the culprit was standing beside two corpses covered with a funeral pall?
11By this time the entire sky was overspread with a funeral pall, and it was so dark that they could hardly see.
12A dark and threatening prophecy had, even before its commencement, enwrapped Louis, his brethren, and his little army, in a funeral pall.
13The smoke cloud, which always hovered over it, had increased until it hung like a funeral pall over the top of the volcano.
14In the clear morning air, the smoke of the guns curled up lazily and hung like a funeral pall over the mangled, bleeding form.
15There was a livid look upon the waters, and the atmosphere was heavy with heat; the sky to windward black as a funeral pall.
16Presently the sun, which had risen bright and clear, was hid by it, and the golden sky was filled with the great funeral pall.
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